Produced by Al Haines _THE FOURTEENTH HARTLEY LECTURE:_ The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching BY J. DODD JACKSON. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: W. A. HAMMOND, PRIMITIVE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, HOLBORN HALL, CLERKENWELL ROAD, B.C. 1912. TO THE MEMORY OF The Rev. James Jackson A PRIMITIVE METHODIST PREACHER FOR FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AND PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE of 1897 THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY AND REVERENTLY DEDICATED BY HIS SON. "'A WORKMAN' NEEDING 'NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.'" PREFACE. It would be strange, indeed, if in the procession of annual volumes of which this lecture is an unit, there did not arrive a book about preaching. The work of the preacher holds so large a place in the service and worship of God; it is, to all appearance, so essential to the accomplishment of the purposes of the Redeemer; its content and quality mean so much to the life and health of the Church; it has played--and is destined to play--so great a part in the saving of mankind, that, sooner or later, it was bound to come within the purview of this lectureship. Now that, at last, the inevitable has happened, it may be said that the following pages have been written under the conviction that one of the greatest needs of the present day is a _pulpit revival_--a revival which will issue in a new endeavour to realise the highest possibilities of the divinest of callings. Many of late years have wandered from the fold of the Church; mighty is the multitude of those who have never been within her fellowship. The author is more than convinced that any attempt to claim and reclaim must, to be successful on a large scale, commence in a renaissance of Gospel preaching. With the preacher, more than with the ecclesiastic or the musician or the theologian, not to mention the Biblical critic and the religio-social worker, rests the task of solving the great problem of twentieth century Christianity. This problem is neither a critical nor a theological one, but simply that of the age-long campaign:--How shall we so commend the Christ as to draw the world to His feet?